Dump-car.



PATENTED Nov. 0, 1900. HJA. READER f DUMP CAR. PPLIOATION Pimp 001231,1904.

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.UNITED 'srArE-s PATENT' OFFICE.

l--HLENRY ARTHUR READEEOF CLEVELAND, oHio, AssiGNoR-ff .R-'A'rroN--l Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY ARTHUR READER, a citizen of the rUnitedStates, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dump- Cars;and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, whiclLwill enable ot art to which itappertains tomake and use the same.

M invention relates to dunipcars; and the invention consists` in a carand means connected therewith for limiting` and controlling the rotationor travel of the body of the car to and from dumping osition -anditsalinement on its supports, a lsubstantially as shown and described, andlparticularly' pointed out in the claim,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a completecar embodying my invention, a portion of the new mechan-4 ism beingsectioned vertically at one end ofy the car. Fig.'2 is an end elevationof the car, both ends being alike. y

. My invention is designed to afford definite stop ing mechanism for thebody beyond Whic it cannotturn and which is uniform in its operationv atboth ends and always restores the body to the saine startnig-pointcentrally ofthe car..v .I

Now l'referring to the parts, A represents the trucks; B, the car-body;I), the supportingfrarne, and C the cross `sup orts or tracks at the endofthe frame on Whic i the car-body tracks C are preferably ers enterinto l y r ism for .the body, as will now be seein' llius It will-benoticed that body -B is triangular 'in end elevation and that the crossbeams or but not necessarily of the I-beam pattern. The said body lB isadapted to rotate and travel on these tracks, and to these ends I rovidethe same with a CERAMIC 'ENGmEEaiNG coMPANY,

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. Application filed October 31,; 1904.` Serial No. 230.649.': v1

each rotation, thus preventingb a -or CLEVELAND rr-io' I firmly secureastandard H onveach end of frame D which is of a substantially Y'pat'-tern, having two reversely-inclined stems h and h at its `top providedwith grooves or channels'lengthwise in which roller G is confined andadapted to travel, according' as the or, the otherA to "v dump the load.Asshown, the saidv chaiiers skilled in the body B is turned to one sidenels are open on both sides, but they .might be closed .on their Outei'sides, and normally vroller G rests down in the angle of saidchan'-nels'andI serves to iixthe exact point to which each end of the bodymustlreturn after twist in the position or alinement of t e body on itssupports. VThe said channels furthermore are shown as havingslightly-archedV or ossible inwardly-curved outer edges d, which form al substantially, cycloidal curve and accommodate said channels to thechanging positions of the roller G as it travels fromlone end of saidchannel to the other when the body B is rolled or kturned to one side onits segmental carriers E. By these means the body B'is p'osi tivelystopped from turning farther when the rollers G reach the top of thecorresponding channels in arms Ior forks `of the fixed stand.-v ards H,as seen in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and then as the body is turned back torighted position the said rollers running in thesaid channels arearbitrarily returned lto their startingfpoint, and thus the body B iscarried back to its starting-point at both ends and to which it isforced to return always to whichever sideit'may have been rotated tounload.

A rod J is shown as connecting the ends of segmental 'carrier Eat eachend, o n which are sup orted' two hand-controlled stop-levers L, red onsaid rod and adapted to be turned down between the arms h and' h ofstandards H and the ends of the segments E and either direction whenboth said levers are down in normal position. Vhen either lever israised and thrown back relatively, as seenin dotted lines, Fig. 1, thebodyvB may-be servingto prevent-rotation of body B in IOO frame betweensaid tracks andthe other an gles at the sides and top thereoa segmentaljvce'rier on enel-lend of theear-body above the said segments to holdythe car-body in upo We'r langle'thereof a'daptedto roll on saidrightposition l tracks, and a projection fromthe middle of In testimonywhereof I sign this specificaeach segment provided with a roller on thetion in the presence of two witnesses.

5 end thereof,f and a fixed upright centrally be- HENRY ARTHUR READER.

hind seid tracks having diverging slotted Witnesses: wings adapted to beengaged bysaid roller as R. B. MOSER, the car is rotated, and means atthe ends of C. A. SELL.

